
‘It’s heartbreaking’: mother of Archie Battersbee says he was bullied online
Exclusive: Hollie Dance, who fought legal battle to stop her son’s life support being switched off, says he received threatening messages
Haroon Siddique Legal affairs correspondent
02, Feb, 2023 @2:48 PM

Saudi prosecutors seek death penalty for academic over social media use
Court documents reveal reasons for Awad Al-Qarni’s arrest – even though rulers are major investors in social media platforms
Stephanie Kirchgaessner in Washington
15, Jan, 2023 @12:57 PM

WhatsApp and other messaging services left out of new Australian misinformation code, regulator says
Australian Communications and Media Authority wants social media companies to hand over information on how they respond to complaints
Paul Karp
08, Jan, 2023 @2:00 PM

‘I want to get off WhatsApp and call my friends instead’: the thing I’ll do differently in 2023
I’ve replaced real conversations with texted chats and I miss speaking to the people I love
Annie Macmanus
26, Dec, 2022 @10:00 AM

Meta fined €265m over data protection breach that hit more than 500m users
Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp owner has been fined nearly €1bn by EU since September 2021
Dan Milmo and agencies
28, Nov, 2022 @5:39 PM

TechScape: How to quit Twitter – and where to go instead
Elon Musk’s chaotic first week as chief twit has crystallised fears that the site is in a death spiral. Here’s a handy guide to other platforms – from a Slack-style chatroom to the anti-Twitter
Alex Hern
08, Nov, 2022 @11:40 AM

Unfollow? Block? And who gets custody of the WhatsApp groups? How to break up in the digital age
Social media has made finding love easier, but ending relationships even messier. Here’s how to finish things online without losing your mind
Louis Staples
04, Nov, 2022 @11:00 AM

Ministers creating ‘wild west’ conditions with use of personal phones
Unsecured mobiles, email accounts and WhatsApp chats could pose national security risk, intelligence experts warn
Peter Walker, Dan Sabbagh and Pippa Crerar
30, Oct, 2022 @7:05 PM

Should my friend make more effort to keep in touch now she lives abroad?
Martha is fed up with at her mate’s flakiness. Niamh says living five time zones away makes communication difficult. You make the call on who’s in the right
Interviews by Georgina Lawton
21, Oct, 2022 @7:00 AM

Textplay review – Beckett and Stoppard SMS comedy is short on lols
A virtual exchange imagined between two theatrical greats is full of literary references, mannered jokes and inconsequential chatter
Arifa Akbar
12, Oct, 2022 @11:42 AM

Simone Lia: Personality types found in WhatsApp groups – cartoon
From the overusers to the clueless…
Simone Lia
09, Oct, 2022 @7:00 AM

‘Wagatha Christie’ trial: Vardy ordered to pay up to £1.5m of Rooney’s legal fees
High court says Vardy must cover 90% of fellow footballer’s wife’s costs after she lost libel trial
Jim Waterson Media editor
04, Oct, 2022 @6:00 PM
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